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Well, it's sort of a consensus amongst Kauffeld researchers that Christopher Kauffeld died in Virginia in 1755, and Maria Margaret went back to Pennsylvania and married Bernhardt at Canadochly Church (I don't have the sources right at my fingertips, but Nicholas Kauffeld didn't have a daughter named Maria Margaret). I noticed the discrepancy in ages too, but it might not be as bad as you think. If Maria Margaret was, say, 16 when she married Christopher, she would have been born in about 1725, making her only about 6 years older than Bernhardt--not totally improbable. I know girls didn't usually marry that young in European society at that time period, but maybe here in America she needed economic security for some reason.
I've also been wondering if Maria Margaret was a sister to Maria Barabara Rausch who married Christopher's brother Nicholas Kauffeld, because Michael and Elisabetha Rausch were sponsors for Christopher's twins born in 1741 (not that that proves anything, but the thought crossed my mind). I think I've seen other notes that linked the two families, but I'd have to search through my files.
I find it interesting that you speculate that Bernhardt and Margaret had a son who went to Virginia--I've been wondering if that's where they went after they got married.
I wonder too how Bernhardt was related to Elizabeth Wacker who married Robert Hueston on 26 Aug 1756 (Records of Rev. John Stoever), and also to Anna Margaretha Wacker who married Georg Jacob Schmelzer on 22 June 1756 at Canadochly--were they his sisters?
I don't know why I'm so interested in this, because I descend from Nicholas Kauffeld's son Valentine Kauffeld who married Catherine Loray. I think it's because it's a mystery, and I like things to be neat and tidy.
Peggy Stone Tegel
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